Selling to Bookstores
Booksellers Recommend: Hunting Teddy Roosevelt by James A. Ross
Hunting Teddy Roosevelt by James A. Ross It’s 1909, and while Teddy Roosevelt is hunting in Africa, he’s also being hunted. In Africa, Roosevelt encounters Sudanese slave traders, Belgian colonial atrocities, and German preparations for war. He reconnects with a childhood sweetheart, Maggie, now a globe-trotting, muckraking newspaper reporter, sent by William Randolph Hearst to […]
Booksellers Recommend: Turtle Planet
Booksellers Recommend: Turtle Planet: Compassion, Conservation, and the Fate of the Natural World by Yun Rou Turtle Planet is a beautifully written work of thought that deeply explores the bond between humans and animals―the wisdom animals teach us, the wounds they can heal, and the role we play in their destruction. Drawing on fifty years […]
Bookstore Funnies
Check out these funny stories, observations, and jokes having to do with bookstores, book buyers, and booksellers. Tweet: I watched a woman demand that my coworker give her a haircut. I work at a bookstore. — @lindseyfever A customer in a bookstore approached an employee to ask where the birding section was. After pointing towards […]
How to Spend a $50,000 Book Promotion Budget
Most beginning authors as well as many established book authors do not know how to set up a budget for promoting their books. In this post, I’ll reveal how you can go about setting a $50,000 budget for promoting your book—and then how to spend that budget. Here’s your budget for promoting a book: $40,000 […]